Word: accept
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...Billion Program. Beyond the bombing issue, Hanoi is expected to propose that the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, which include the cities of Hué and Quang Tri, be turned into a buffer zone. That would be a tough proposal for the allies to accept, since it would effectively give Hanoi part of what it sought-and failed to get-in 1954: partition of the country near the 16th parallel instead of the 17th. The U.S. is likely to call for a return to the conditions set forth, and frequently violated, at Geneva in 1954, with emphasis...
...will not be easy for whites to accept counsel or direction from blacks. But nothing short of that is likely to be successful. On the course toward genuine union with his black brother, the white's first step is perhaps the hardest of all. It is to acknowledge that he and not the Negro must change his attitude. Above all, he must accept his majority share of responsibility for the race problem. If the white is genuinely concerned about forming a useful coalition with the black, he will certainly have to drop his guard-and, beyond that, he will...
Moreover, I cannot quite accept the viewpoint that the black man's experience with white oppression has endowed Black Men with a special insight into oppression and thus a special will or capacity to rid human affairs of oppression. I would argue in fact that this viewpoint is largely a political one which certain groups find serviceable in the contemporary conflict between Negro and white in American society. Indeed, it is a common fallacy to believe that what is momentarily politically serviceable is ipso facto intellectually virtuous. Even though I understand this viewpoint as held by black nationalists...
...THIS connection, it can be remarked that all men--black and white, yellow and red--accept those historical paradoxes or ironies found suitable or useful for a given occasion, and reject those lacking such utility. In this respect, therefore, the Black Experience is, I daresay, little more than an offshoot of the Human Experience--no better and no worse. Perhaps I can put this point in sharper relief by reference to other features of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere that seldom appear in the black nationalist view of this horrofying historical event. To those who take the historiography...
...Harvard's officers accept the University as a democracy. And if they did, where would one stop? Are students and Faculty members more affected by Harvard investment and real estate practices than are Harvard employees or Cambridge residents? How is it best for all these groups to influence Harvard's decision-making process? Trying to change the Overseers from a body of outside advisors and donors into a forum of discussion will never accomplish much. By exerting pressure as a responsible interest group upon the actual decision-makers, students and others will achieve much more...